I am by no means Japanese, but if I would be, or indeed even speak the language, these two kanji is how I would write my name; Ran, meaning approximately "chaos" and Zen meaning, well, "zen". It is my ambition to use this blog as a forum for highly irregular anecdotal rambling on topics on everything from travel, music and philosophy to bioinformatics.

The time has come for a lot of stuff:1) The first snow over Bergen2) For me to write a blog post3) For a new OS from Apple. This time called OSX Lion - bringing the fantastic functionality of the iPod to your laptop. Hmm.4) For Bergen International Film Festival, tonight featuring a film on Bill Hicks, the legend, prophet and all around really funny guy who died much too young in 1994. It should not be missed.